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Final Countdown: The Best Fantasy Football Sleepers In 2019 The final countdown for the start of the 2019 NFL season has begun. We are less than two weeks from the kick-off of the season and more importantly, we are heading into the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year. Over the next 10 days, there…

32 Things To Learn For Fantasy Football From Week Three Preseason NFL All of the “serious” preseason football has been played; we aren’t going to see anymore starting players on the field after week three preseason games. The to-the-decimal projections here on RotoExperts have continued to be updated to the meaningful playing time shifts from preseason…

Week 2 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire: John Ross, Raheem Mostert And More (Most) of Week One is in the books! Things went rather well for RotoExperts subscribers as Malcolm Brown, Sammy Watkins and Lamar Jackson had amazing days to set themselves up for success for the rest of the year. Of course, fantasy football is never…

My Guys: Top Fantasy Football Targets For Every Draft And Format Fantasy football draft season has come and is now rapidly running away from us. Labor Day weekend is when a vast majority of the fantasy football drafts take place in the United States but I have already been through the wringer of more than…

Buffalo Bills and the Josh Allen Dilemma: A Fan’s Plea For A High Variance Offense I’ve been meaning to write this article for a while, and it’s difficult to tell where to start. I think the best place is my feelings about Josh Allen when he was first drafted. I was upset. I thought it…

Ten Bold Fantasy Football Predictions For The 2019 Fantasy Football Season Bold predictions are exactly what they sound like: bold. By having defined ideas about how the fantasy football season might go, you can actually make better fantasy teams. If you draft every team with the same vision in your projections as to how the…

How To Approach Josh Gordon In Fantasy Football It actually happened! After taking an aggressive stance on Josh Gordon in the DRAFT Best Ball championship and in other league formats, Gordon has been reinstated by the league and returned to the New England Patriots organization. Of course, this is not the first time that Josh…

32 Things To Learn For Fantasy Football From Week Two Preseason NFL Preseason continues to matters for those who are serious about winning their fantasy football leagues. Not every team flashed their true colors in week two preseason action but there was plenty to take away from a fantasy football context. The to-the-decimal projections here…

Fantasy Football Auction Strategy In Action: The Pentathlon Experts League Fantasy football auctions are pretty drastically different than a standard snake draft. Obviously, instead of drafting players in sequential order, fantasy football managers are given a fake budget (usually $200 “dollars”) in which to complete their starting roster and bench spots. There are many different…

Final Countdown: The Biggest Fantasy Football BUSTS Of 2019 You have waded through all the articles and research. You read The Perfect Draft for your draft selection, you printed out your customizable cheat sheet using the best projections and rankings in the fantasy football industry and you are ready to absolutely crush your league using the ULTIMATE…

The defending Super Bowl champs come into this draft with very little to shoot for. Without a pick until Day 3, the Patriots have the luxury of owning one of the deepest teams in the league. There is the possibility that there will be a couple of trades by this team leading up to the draft. Both Malcolm Butler and Jimmy Garoppolo could see their rumored deals finally take place, leading to one or two first-round selections by the Patriots. But if neither of these trades take place, look for this team to do what it usually does and that is to take the best available player. Truth be told, the Patriots haven’t had the best luck in hitting with draft selections in recent years, but they still like to hoard those picks nonetheless. As it stands now, both the third-round selections of Ahkello Witherspoon and Tyus Bowser project out to be no better than complementary backups at the next level. Expect the Patriots to be hot and heavy on the phone in the days leading up to the draft, as they try and get themselves some action in the early rounds. Otherwise, it will be just another ho-hum year at the draft for this team.

Expect Tom Brady to vie for the top spot in Fantasy scoring in 2017. Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire

Tom Brady looks like he will never retire. Coming off a season where he was out to prove it to all the doubters – including Roger Goodell – Brady will not have the same motivation as he did a year ago. But, that doesn’t mean that he will regress in any form or fashion either. He is blessed with talent galore at all the skill positions, and no defense can focus solely on stopping Brady. He will be one of the first three QBs taken in drafts this year, and he should likely be off the board by the end of Round 4 or the beginning of Round 5. Brady is one of the few QBs that is worth that type of investment.

With the trade of Brandin Cooks to New England, many experts are expecting big things from him in 2017. But I say not so fast. Cooks will have to learn a new offensive system and develop a rapport with Brady. He has the skillset to have a big year in this offense, but I don’t see him living up to the lofty expectations that many have set for him already. The big winner here may actually be Julian Edelman, as he will now see plenty of single coverages to take advantage of. He should again be in store for a big PPR season, while also increasing his TD output. Cooks will be drafted ahead of Edelman early in Round 2, but give me the production of Edelman a round or two later. Rob Gronkowski maintains his position as the top tight end in the game and will be drafted as such. But as opposed to last year where he was drafted at the end of Round 1 or early Round 2, you should see him stay on the board until sometime mid-Round 3 range in 2017. The other receiving options, Chris Hoganand Malcolm Mitchell, are glorified deep threats that are capable of big weeks but will likely be too inconsistent to count on in your lineup on a weekly basis.

Good luck figuring out this backfield in New England. It seems like the objective of the front office is to sign every back that is even remotely available. Newly signed Mike Gillislee is headed to New England after the Bills declined to match the offer sheet, which further jumbles up things here. He will join James White, Dion Lewis, Rex Burkhead, Brandon Bolden and, well, you get the idea here. Gillislee would figure to see most of the early-down, short-yardage-type situations, while also being the goal-line back, which lifts his Fantasy value. Both Lewis and White will also be prominently used in this backfield and hold value mostly in PPR formats. Coming off a big game in the Super Bowl, some may assume that White holds the advantage, but it would be like the Patriots if Lewis was the guy early on just to confuse us all. Gillislee will be the guy to draft first, in my opinion, but if you are wanting any part of this backfield, then more power to you. I, for one, will be avoiding the headaches myself and sticking to backfields limited to just two RBs to figure out.

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Final Countdown: The Best Fantasy Football Sleepers In 2019 The final countdown for the start of the 2019 NFL season has begun. We are less than two weeks from the kick-off of the season and more importantly, we are heading into the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year. Over the next 10 days, there…

32 Things To Learn For Fantasy Football From Week Three Preseason NFL All of the “serious” preseason football has been played; we aren’t going to see anymore starting players on the field after week three preseason games. The to-the-decimal projections here on RotoExperts have continued to be updated to the meaningful playing time shifts from preseason…

Week 2 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire: John Ross, Raheem Mostert And More (Most) of Week One is in the books! Things went rather well for RotoExperts subscribers as Malcolm Brown, Sammy Watkins and Lamar Jackson had amazing days to set themselves up for success for the rest of the year. Of course, fantasy football is never…

My Guys: Top Fantasy Football Targets For Every Draft And Format Fantasy football draft season has come and is now rapidly running away from us. Labor Day weekend is when a vast majority of the fantasy football drafts take place in the United States but I have already been through the wringer of more than…

Buffalo Bills and the Josh Allen Dilemma: A Fan’s Plea For A High Variance Offense I’ve been meaning to write this article for a while, and it’s difficult to tell where to start. I think the best place is my feelings about Josh Allen when he was first drafted. I was upset. I thought it…

Ten Bold Fantasy Football Predictions For The 2019 Fantasy Football Season Bold predictions are exactly what they sound like: bold. By having defined ideas about how the fantasy football season might go, you can actually make better fantasy teams. If you draft every team with the same vision in your projections as to how the…

How To Approach Josh Gordon In Fantasy Football It actually happened! After taking an aggressive stance on Josh Gordon in the DRAFT Best Ball championship and in other league formats, Gordon has been reinstated by the league and returned to the New England Patriots organization. Of course, this is not the first time that Josh…

32 Things To Learn For Fantasy Football From Week Two Preseason NFL Preseason continues to matters for those who are serious about winning their fantasy football leagues. Not every team flashed their true colors in week two preseason action but there was plenty to take away from a fantasy football context. The to-the-decimal projections here…

Fantasy Football Auction Strategy In Action: The Pentathlon Experts League Fantasy football auctions are pretty drastically different than a standard snake draft. Obviously, instead of drafting players in sequential order, fantasy football managers are given a fake budget (usually $200 “dollars”) in which to complete their starting roster and bench spots. There are many different…

Final Countdown: The Biggest Fantasy Football BUSTS Of 2019 You have waded through all the articles and research. You read The Perfect Draft for your draft selection, you printed out your customizable cheat sheet using the best projections and rankings in the fantasy football industry and you are ready to absolutely crush your league using the ULTIMATE…